Staff Issues

Navigate recruitment, staff training, employment law, and managing teams within your franchise operation.

A Guide to SSP, Statutory Sick Pay

As an employer your business will have to contend with a level of staff absence due to sickness. Employers have to pay SSP (Statutory Sick Pay) to their empl...

How Flexible Working Regulations Affect You

The regulations affecting the number of hours people work have always been part of working time, but over the last two years the government has bought in new...

How to Recruit the Right People

Many people that start their own businesses make the mistake of trying to do everything themselves. It’s likely that you will have to recruit staff to help...

How to Train Your Staff

Developing your staff through training is one of the most effective ways of improving your franchise business. Staff training can become a great way to team...

Taking on Your First Employee

As your franchise expands, you will inevitably start to consider taking on extra help. Employees are at the heart of every business, and they can help you to...

Tax, NIC and Pensions and Your Employees

When your business takes on an employee you become responsible for accurately managing their pension, National Insurance contributions, the payment of their...

Understand Contracts of Employment

When you make a formal offer of employment to an applicant a contract comes into existence. This contract can be written, oral or simply implied. Whichever f...